A loaded gun was among the items the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office said three Salisbury teenagers stole from unlocked cars in the Rustic Acres neighborhood.

A deputy responded to the area at 5 a.m. Jan. 9, the sheriff's office said, after someone reported subjects running behind a house in the area.

The deputy spotted a taxi speeding as it left the neighborhood, according to the sheriff's office, and stopped the vehicle.

Giovonte Fields(Photo: Image courtesy of the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office)

After learning cars in the area had been ransacked, the sheriff's office said the deputy found the taxi's three occupants, 19-year-old Giovonte Fields and two 16-year-old males, had a substantial amount of change and a loaded .45 semi-automatic handgun in their possession, all of which had been stolen from unlocked vehicles.

The sheriff's office said the trio was arrested and the two juveniles were charged alongside Fields as adults with theft of a handgun, handgun on person, possession of a handgun by a prohibited person, rogue and vagabond and theft.

They are being held in the Wicomico County Detention Center without bond pending a district court bond review.